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Senior / Principal FPGA Design Engineer

Spectrum IT Recruitment
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10 months ago
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Senior / Principal FPGA Design Engineer required an established company located in Southampton. Due to continued expansion the company is looking to add a Senior / Principal FPGA Design Engineer to its existing, highly skilled team.Key skills- Matlab/C/C++ prototyping for design & verification- Timing & hardware resource optimisation for high throughput data or signal processing applications- EDA tools for simulation and synthesis - eg Siemens QuestaSim, Synopsys VCS, Intel Quartus, Xilinx Vivado, Synopsys DC Ultra, Cadence Genus- Version control / peer review - Git or simlar- Documentation- Confluence or similar- Task/time management- Jira or similar Knowledge or experience in any of the following areas would be advantageous;- AXI interfacing- Communications signal processing algorithms- Mobile communication systems- Telecoms and/or semiconductor industry experience- EDA tool maintenance- Automation - JenkinsIf you are looking for a role of this nature please get in touch for more information.Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy...

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